WARRAGUL. Tuesday.—The question of conscription for war service was introduced into the Australian Natives' Association annual conference by the chief ...
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Article : 211 wordsMonday was full of engagements for the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes). He had interviews with the Minister for Munitions (Mr. Lloyd George), the ...
Article : 2,213 wordsThe president of the Board of Trade is reported to have informed an American news agency that the British, while noting the Teutonic threat to ...
Article : 217 wordsThe British Commander-in-Chief in France (General Sir Douglas Haig) has telegraphed as follows to General Joffre:— "While deploring the loss ...
Article : 440 wordsThe announcement by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) that over 210,000 men have been enrolled for active service, calls attention to the great growth of the ...
Article : 406 wordsThe Admiralty announces that four British destroyers on Monday chased three German destroyers sighted off the Belgian coast towards Zeebrugge. ...
Article : 38 wordsAn important interview which a United Press representative had with the British President of the Board of Trade (Mr. "Walter Runciman) is telegraphed from New ...
Article : 1,114 wordsAn Austrian communiqué states:—"After half a year's brave defence we evacuated the ruined bridge and fortifications northwest of Usciesc[?]o (on the Dneister, ...
Article : 153 wordsBEECH FOREST, Tuesday.—A sensation was caused to-day when it became known that an old-age pensioner named George Leek, 72 years of age, had attempted to ...
Article : 449 wordsThe president of the Board of Trade (Mr. Runciman), in an interview which he granted to a representative of the American Associated Press, said that the British ...
Article : 141 wordsJudgment by consent has been given for plaintiff for £1,000 damages and costs in the libel action brought by Mrs. H. H. Asquith, the wife of the British Prime ...
Article : 263 wordsThe long-promised statement regarding the progress of recruiting, and the Commonwealth's commitment under the new offer, is expected to-day. The Minister ...
Article : 727 wordsAn attempt to assassinate the Premier of Bulgaria (M. Radoslavoff) is reported from Rome. A postal employee named Ivanoff fired ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Germans, in a communique issued early on Tuesday morning, claim to have repulsed strong Russian attacks around Lakes Narocz and Wiszniew, south of ...
Article : 66 wordsA Rome official bulletin issued on Tuesday reports that a violent engagement developed on the Middle Isonzo on March 18 and 19, when the Austrians were reinforced ...
Article : 74 wordsWhilst it is not given to everybody to experience what life in the trenches really means, a very good imitation, and one not unattended by a fair amount of personal ...
Article : 817 wordsMr. Hughes, the Australian Prime Minister, was yesterday sworn in at Buckingham Palace as a member of the Privy Council. ...
Article : 26 wordsWARRAGUL, Tuesday.—A strong protest against any reduction in the pensions promised to maimed soldiers who have returned from the war was made by the chief ...
Article : 535 wordsThe Official Press representative in Mesopotamia (Mr. Candler) has telegraphed to say that the British force marching to the relief of Lieut.-General Townshend at ...
Article : 155 wordsThe retiring Viceroy of India (Lord Hardinge) on Monday delivered a speech before the Council in support of a motion for the abolition of the system of Indian indentured ...
Article : 392 wordsAt a meeting of the Cycle Trades Employees' Union, held at the Trades-Hall, it was resolved to instruct the delegates on the Eight Hours Day Committee to move that ...
Article : 222 wordsTwo more deaths, one at Dover and one at Ramsgate, have resulted from the raid of German seaplanes on Sunday. The total number of deaths is now 11. ...
Article : 37 wordsAn officer of the Australian Army Medical Corps, writing to his parents in Melbourne on February 14, says:—Yesterday I went to the base post-office, Alexandria, on duty, ...
Article : 402 wordsFERNTREE GULLY, Tuesday.—At the meeting of the Ferntree Gully Shire Council on Saturday a motion proposed by Councillor Monk was agreed to calling upon all ...
Article : 161 wordsDealing with the enlistment of minors in the Australian Imperial Force yesterday the chairman of the State Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (Mr. Mackinnon) ...
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Advertising : 333 wordsArrival.—At New York—City of Sparta, s.s., from Melbourne Dec. 10. Departures. —For Melbourne — Inca. For Dunedin— Fred. J. Wood. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 22 Mar 1916, Page 9
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